linkage

From link + -age.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪŋkɪdʒ/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: lin‧kage

linkage (countable and uncountable, plural linkages)

1. A mechanical device that connects things.

   A linkage in my car's transmission is broken so I can't shift out of first gear.

2. A connection or relation between things or ideas.

   Synonyms: association, bond, connection, link, relationship

   • 1976 August 21, A. Nolder Gay, “Another View”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 8, page 4:

     Far from ignoring linkages between gays and the poor and working class, I specifically made the point that they are common victims of the bureaucratic revolution.

3. (software compilation) The act or result of linking: the combination of multiple object files into one executable, library, or object file.
4. (genetics) The property of genes of being inherited together.
5. (linguistics) A set of definitely related languages for which no proto-language can be derived, typically a group of languages within a family that have formed a sprachbund.
6. (US, politics, historical) A United States foreign policy, during the 1970s détente in the Cold War, of persuading the Soviet Union to co-operate in restraining revolutions in the Third World in return for nuclear and economic concessions.

(compilation):

• link
• linker
• link time

• Joe Miller (24 January 2018), “Davos jargon: A crime against the English language?”, in BBC News‎^[1], BBC

• leaking

• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

  (file)

linkage m (plural linkages)

1. (genetics) linkage

• “linkage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012